Flashback (Story Time at Home: Let's Visit China!)

Today’s Story Time at Home theme is China!  If you would like to share a picture of your story-time-at-home experience (i.e. You might send a picture of a finished craft project), just shoot us an email at ozarkregionallibraryyouth@gmail.com, and it might get included on our blog!  No names will be included with submissions for privacy reasons.

Let's Visit China Story Time

Books: 

Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood

Story from China

by Ed Young

Cover image from Goodreads.

The Seven Chinese Brothers 

by Margaret Mahy and 
Mou-Sien Tseng.

Cover image from Goodreads.

Game/Activity: Have a chopstick relay race.  See who can place “rice” (white cottonballs) in a bowl the quickest, only using chopsticks to pick up the rice.  If you don’t have authentic chopsticks from a Chinese restaurant, you might substitute a pair of unsharpened pencils.  For better grip, use the eraser end of the pencils to snag the cottonballs.

Snack: Make rice or instant rice pudding, or eat pre-packaged rice cakes.

Craft: Make a beautiful paper fan.    

     

Instructions:

• Gather a paper plate, a popsicle stick, glue or tape, and crayons or markers.
• Draw a scene on the paper plate with crayons or markers.  Traditional Chinese scenes are of flowers, fish, butterflies, or birds.
• Securely glue or tape your popsicle stick to the bottom of the plate.

I hope you enjoyed this idea for how you can recreate story time at home!  Check back in a few days for more fun, travel-themed ideas focusing on a new area of the world!

Keep reading!

Shaen